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Al-Araby
Al-Araby
As Afghanistan’s proud people now struggle to emerge from the crater that NATO allies bombed them into, glazed and jaded eyes in Britain gaze past them. The invasion and occupation of Afghanistan by the United States and its NATO allies produced 5.3 million refugees (a quarter of the entire population), left 72% of Afghans in poverty and rendered Afghans the saddest people in the world. Following the US government’s decision to freeze $9.5 billion of assets in the Afghan Central Bank, it is predicted that the poverty rate could reach 97% in 2022. It is estimated that 95% of the population do n…